10 Wrestlers Triple H Couldn't Get Over

5. Kane

Before Kane and Hunter battled in 2003, The Big Red Machine had been over at points in his career. But he’d peaked a few years earlier after big angles with The Undertaker and Steve Austin ended. With the brand split in full effect, though, the company needed some players to step up, so Kane was shot back into the main event briefly to work with Hunter. For everyone involved, we wished he hadn’t.

The two already had their go at each other, most notably at WrestleMania XV, and then in 2001 as part of the Two-Man Power Trip storyline. Now both men were at different points in their career. Hunter was rocking it in Evolution, and WWE was attempting to make Kane more human by retconning pieces of his backstory by saying that he had a girlfriend named Katie Vick. Well, longtime fans recall how embarrassingly awful that was (who could forget simulated sex on a dummy inside of a casket for 10 minutes?), and it basically sunk the feud immediately.

Kane and Hunter battled at No Mercy 2002 in a title unification match and then fought two weeks later on Raw in a casket match. On June 23, 2003, Kane lost his mask per the stipulation against Triple H, and then reverted back to a more sinister, unrealistic character. It worked well for him for a bit, more so than his feud with Hunter ever did.

The two apart can be quite good, but together they have been horrifyingly terrible.